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Kevin Dowling
Project Scientist

No longer a member of RI.

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Research interests

My main interests are in the development of mobile systems. I've designed and built a number of robotic machines and subsystems. My current research is in the development of serpentine locomotors and machine learning for gait development.

Research interest keywords

machine learning and mobile robots

Past Labs & Groups

Mobile Robot Lab - Engaging in long-term basic research in perception, control and planning for robots that navigate through complex indoor and outdoor spaces.

Past Projects

Daedalus - We deveopled Daedalus, a six-legged frame-walker with efficient redundant drive systems, for extreme terrain missions as part of the Lunar Rover Initiative.	Neptune Mobile Robot - three wheeled robot trike
Pluto - Flexible platform for computer vision	Single Leg Testbed - We developed the Single Leg Testbed as a full-scale working prototype for the Ambler.
Tessellator - Space Shuttle Tile Inspector	Uranus - mobile robot used for developing 3D mapping and sensing

Publications

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• Limbless Locomotion: Learning to Crawl with a Snake Robot
  K. Dowling
  doctoral dissertation, tech. report CMU-RI-TR-97-48, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 1997. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [3253 KB], ps.gz [4098 KB] copyrighted

• Power Sources for Small Robots
  K. Dowling
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-97-02, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, January, 1997. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [89 KB], ps.gz [88 KB] copyrighted

• Tessellator Robot Design Document
  K. Dowling
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-95-43, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, January, 1996. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1062 KB] copyrighted

• Three Mobile Robots For Space Context
  W.L. Whittaker, J. Bares, K. Dowling, and L. Kattragadda
  AIAA/NASA Conference on Intelligent Robots in Field, Factory, Service and Space (CIRFFSS '94) Conference, March, 1994.
  Download: pdf [33 KB], ps.gz [32 KB] copyrighted

• Drivetrain Design, Incorporating Redundancy, for an Autonomous Walking Robot
  G. Roston and K. Dowling
  Space94: 4th International Conference and Exposition on Engineering, Construction, and Operations in Space, February, 1994.
  Download: pdf [26 KB], ps.gz [31 KB] copyrighted

• A Mobile Robot for Ground Servicing Operations on the Space Shuttle
  K. Dowling, R. Bennett, M. Blackwell, T. Graham, S. Gatrall, R. O'Toole, and H. Schempf
  OE / Technology 1992 Cooperative Intelligent Robots in Space, SPIE, November, 1992.
  Download: pdf [101 KB], ps.gz [98 KB] copyrighted

• Mobile Robot System for Ground Servicing Operations on the Space Shuttle
  H. Schempf, K. Dowling, and M. Blackwell
  SPIE OE/Technology `92 Conference, November, 1992.
  Download: pdf [101 KB], ps.gz [98 KB] copyrighted

• The Terregator Mobile Robot
  Champeny-Bares, L.S. Coppersmith, and K. Dowling
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-93-03, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 1991. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [314 KB], ps.gz [909 KB] copyrighted

• NAVLAB: A Autonomous Navigation Testbed
  K. Dowling, R. Guzikowski, J. Ladd, H. Pangels, S. Singh, and W.L. Whittaker
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-87-24, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, November, 1987.
  Download: pdf [2070 KB] copyrighted

• A Functional Vehicle for Autonomous Mobile Robot Research
  G. Podnar, K. Dowling, and M. Blackwell
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-84-28, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, April, 1984.
  Download: pdf [2728 KB] copyrighted